BACOLOD CITY – The Police Regional Office-Negros Island Region (PRO-NIR) seized shabu valued at P8.8 million for distribution at the Sinulog Festival in Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental after arresting two high-value drug personalities in a buy-bust operation in this highly urbanized city on...
DAVAO CITY – The Davao City Council is exploring the establishment of a People’s Council, a body mandated by the Department of the Interior and Local Government to promote the active participation of civil society organizations in local governance. Committee on Cooperative Development and...
Mayor Maan Teodoro on Monday, Jan. 12, vowed to support all plans and programs of the Marikina City Police Station to strengthen peace, order, and the safety of residents in the city. The partnership between the city government and the Marikina CPS was further reinforced during a New Year’s...
More than P14 million in housing assistance was released to a community in Valenzuela City under the government’s Enhanced Community Mortgage Program (ECMP). The assistance was granted to the Wawang Pulo Homeowners’ Association, Inc. Phase 1 through the Department of Human Settlements and...
An unidentified man with gunshot wounds and handcuffed hands was found dead along the roadside of Sitio Aduas in Barangay San Jose, Antipolo City, on Sunday morning, Jan. 11. The Antipolo City Component Police Station (Antipolo CCPS) said the victim was discovered by a barangay personnel, who...
LEGAZPI CITY, Albay - Police cited a barangay tanod here for returning a lost wallet containing cash amounting to P9,350. The honest barangay tanod was identified as Rey Agripa Besmejo of Barangay Tula-Tula. Besmejo turned over the wallet to the police instead of keeping its contents. In a Facebook...
DAVAO CITY – Former President Rodrigo Duterte won’t return to the Philippines as long as Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. is president, Davao City first district Rep. Paolo Duterte said Monday. Speaking to Duterte supporters outside the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Rep. Duterte said his...
DAVAO CITY – City government officials criticized on Monday, Jan. 12, the renewed move to file an impeachment complaint against Vice President Sara Z. Duterte, describing the effort as politically motivated and a distraction from more pressing concerns. Speaking at the Pulong-Pulong sa Dabawenyos...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Ormoc City government has ordered the closure of the nearly century-old Ormoc Maternity and Children’s Hospital, citing multiple violations of its memorandum of agreement with the local government, Mayor Lucy Torres Gomez said in a statement on Monday. Gomez said the closure...
A working student lost her cellphone and thousands of pesos in class funds after a man took the device while it was charging inside a store in Barangay Bignay, Valenzuela City, on Sunday, Jan. 11. According to the Valenzuela City Police Station (VCPS) and barangay officials, the incident occurred...
CEBU CITY – The regional director of the Department of Labor and Employment-Central Visayas (DOLE-7) has asked the Office of the Ombudsman-Visayas to investigate the legal officer of the City Traffic Management System (CTMS) and an associate city prosecutor in Lapu-Lapu City. DOLE-7 chief Roy...
Senator Imee Marcos has filed a resolution seeking to conduct an inquiry in aid of legislation into the compliance of sanitary landfills with the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000, as well as other applicable laws. This was after the deadly collapse of the Binaliw Sanitary Landfill in...
